Mercury speciation and emission from municipal solid waste incinerators in the Pearl River Delta, South China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 396-402

  Chen, Laiguo ^a   Liu, Ming ^a,b   Fan, Ruifang ^b   Ma, Shexia ^a   Xu, Zhencheng ^a   Ren, Mingzhong ^a   He, Qiusheng ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Emission factor; Mercury; Mercury emissions; Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI); Speciation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION FLUIDIZED BED; EMISSION FACTORS; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; GASEOUS OXIDIZED MERCURIES; GRATE FURNACES; HG RELEASE; HIGH VOLUMES; ISOKINETIC SAMPLING; MERCURY EMISSIONS; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; MSWI PLANTS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; MUNICIPAL WASTE; PARTICULATE MERCURY; PEARL RIVER DELTA; SOUTH CHINA; SPECIATION; TOTAL MERCURIES;

FLUE GASES; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTORS; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE INCINERATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

EMISSION; INCINERATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CIRCULATION FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLUE GAS; GRATE FURNACE COMBUSTOR; INCINERATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCINERATION; MERCURY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOLID WASTE;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84873690504     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.018     Document Type: Article

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